Sequencing the Genome of Unborn Babies

As a follow on from my post about 23andMe and genetic testing last month, I would like to point readers towards a story that is just breaking here in the US. The New York Times carried a story on its front page on 7th June that is rapidly spreading, in which it reported that an ... Sequencing the Genome of Unborn Babies

Jonathan Hankins

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 4/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 37 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43673122 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 4 di 4 Giuseppe Testa, Piero Bassetti, Adriano Pessina, ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 4/4

Adriano Pessina
Carlo Modonesi
Gianluca Bocchi
Giuseppe Testa
Michele Di Francesco
Piero Bassetti

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 3/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 40 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43661926 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 3 di 4 Margherita Fronte, Adriano Pessina, Francesco Samorè, ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 3/4

Adriano Pessina
Francesco Samorè
Giuseppe Testa
Margherita Fronte

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 2/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 47 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43660433 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 2 di 4 Gianluca Bocchi, Michele Di Francesco, Giuseppe ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 2/4

Gianluca Bocchi
Giuseppe O. Longo
Michele Di Francesco
Sebastiano Maffettone

Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 1/4

Event: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Date: 2012 06 04 Time: 41 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milano, Italia. Language: Italiano. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/43657997 Report: Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo. Seminario sul libro “Geni a nudo” (Codice Edizioni, 2012) di Helga Nowotny e Giuseppe Testa. Parte 1 di 4 Piero Bassetti, Giuseppe Testa, Margherita Fronte ... Ripensare l’uomo nel XXI secolo – 1/4

Giuseppe Testa
Margherita Fronte
Piero Bassetti

More Medical Patent Problems

Last month the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that that the personalized medicine dosing process invented by Prometheus is not eligible for patent protection because the process is effectively an unpatentable law of nature. This decision reverses the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s holding that the claims were patentable because they included substantial ... More Medical Patent Problems

Redazione FGB

Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States

On May 16th 2011 Margaret Curnutte gave her talk at the Foundation premises on “Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States” as part of her Harvard Bassetti scholarship. DIY genetic testing poses many questions that regard the governance of technologies but also how social and cultural norms co-evolve with the history of ... Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States

Genetic test inaccuracy: a new report

On Tuesday 31 May Rachel Kalf from the department of epidemiology at Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam in The Netherlands presented a paper at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics in which she argued that home genetic tests are neither acurate nor beneficial to the individual. Her conclusion is the result ... Genetic test inaccuracy: a new report

Redazione FGB

Consuming Genomes – 5/5

Event: Consuming Genomes. Title: Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States. Date: 2011 05 16 Time: 29 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milan, Italy. Language: English. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26469913 On May 16th 2011 Margaret Curnutte gave her talk at the Foundation premises on “Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United ... Consuming Genomes – 5/5

dibattito
Margareth Curnutte
Piero Bassetti

Consuming Genomes – 4/5

Event: Consuming Genomes. Title: Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United States. Date: 2011 05 16 Time: 19 min. Place: Fondazione Giannino Bassetti, Milan, Italy. Language: English. url Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26469351 On May 16th 2011 Margaret Curnutte gave her talk at the Foundation premises on “Consuming Genomes: Constructing the Genetic Consumer in the United ... Consuming Genomes – 4/5

dibattito
Giuseppe Testa
Margareth Curnutte